Earlier this week we learned that the EMDrive - a propulsion device that already breaks rules of physics - might actually be generating warp fields. If true it's absolutely amazing news that could enable space travel. But science urged caution. There was still a possibility the data was flawed because the EMDrive test wasn't conducted in a vacuum. So while the reasonable instinct is to get excited, we need to wait for more information.

(07-05-2015 11:03 AM)devilsadvoc8 Wrote: Is it me or is it poorly written when it states that the EMDrive "breaks the laws of physics".

The whole article is retarded.

It claims that traveling faster than light would allow travel to the moon in just a few hours. (Because the speed of light is actually less than the speed of sound?)
It calls the EMDrive a 'warp drive' despite it having absolutely no similarities to warp drive at all.
It claims that an EMDrive is a FTL engine design.
It says that something that exists in reality has broken the laws of physics.

It's a terrible article. Whoever wrote it needs to be punched in the jaw.

"Faster than light" is a phrase that is as meaningless as the phrase "divide by zero." As the Monty Python song correctly states, the speed of light is the fastest speed there is.

When people start to confuse a popular space fantasy television show with reality, they are bound to come up with nonsense. And "warp drive" isn't even very imaginative. I much prefer the infinite improbability drive.